Interviewer instructions
<span class="h2">6.5 Section V. Residents of the home and identification of households</span>
<br />The purpose of this section is to identify, in each interview, how many people normally reside in the home and how many households make up this group of people.</p>
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<p>Instructions:
<br />This section contains four questions, which are asked in each interview as if being asked for the first time.</p>
<p>Although it has already been stated, it is worth emphasizing how important it is, when conducting the interview, to ask the questions textually, in order to avoid losing valuable information, as in this case, the identification of habitual residents of the home, and the questions are designed in such a way that it is the informant, and not you, who defines who are the habitual residents of their home.</p>
<p>A typical case in which the informant tends to have doubts when defining the residence status is that of students and workers who, due to the long distance to their study and work centers, respectively, must reside, most of the week, in another private home. Only in this type of cases will you be the one to decide whether or not to consider a person a habitual resident based on the criteria listed in the next question.</p>
<p><span class="em">Question 2</span>
<br />This question is asked in each interview in homes where more than one person reside, to find out how many of them form independent households.</p>
<p>Household. A group made up of two or more people who habitually reside in the same home, and are sustained by common expenses, principally to provide food, and may or may not be related.</p>
<p>One-person household. Person who does not share grocery expenses with other person(s)
<br />constitutes an independent household.</p>
<p>In accordance with the foregoing, there will be as many households in the home as groups of people who are sharing grocery expenses.</p>
<p>Conceptual clarifications:
<br />Criterion of the common pot in the conformation of households. Based on the way in which they decided to organize themselves, implicitly or explicitly, the residents of a home, with or without familial bonds, may be sharing, in addition to grocery expenses, the payment of services such as rent for the home, water, electricity, telephone, etc.; however, the sole criterion to define the presence of one or more households is the fact of sharing grocery expenses, a situation that may occur weekly or only a few days of it, but habitually.</p>
<p>Instructions:</p>
<div class="i1">- One-person households. If a person lives alone (one-person household) or inhabits the home along with one or more people, but does not share grocery expenses with them, consider each person to constitute an independent household.<br />- Household with live-in domestic workers. If the owner's household and their domestic workers (with or without their families) habitually reside in the same home, such that both groups of people share the same space, for merely operational purposes you should count them all as part of the same household. Exclude workers from the employer's household questionnaire if they reside on the same property, but in an home independent from that of the latter.<br />- Home with guests. There are two classes of households with guests which can be detected when obtaining the information; these are counted as part of the household that provides them lodging services or not according to the following:<br />- Households with guests. Include them in the same questionnaire as the household that provides them the lodging services only if they also pay for food services. In this case the presence of up to five guests is permitted; if there are six or more guests, consider it a group living arrangement.<br />- Households with guests. Enter them as independent households if they only pay for lodging services and not for food. Remember that for the survey, the selected homes will only be subject to interview if a maximum of six households reside in them: five households of guests plus the household of the person providing them lodging.<br />- Sequence to follow. When in any interview from the second to the fifth you detect that household one no longer resides in the home, but it is still inhabited by other person(s), update the information from the questions in this section in the sociodemographic questionnaire of the household with the lower number.<br />- If only one household resides in the home (code 1), go to question 4; if more than one household resides there (code 2), continue to question 3.</div>
